continue/else functionality

[Chris Richard Adams]

I have a script that reads lines out of a text file. The first line in
the file serves as a "flag-line" stating whether or not the file should
be read: 1 yes, 0 no. The rest of the file contains data lines to be
read. How can I get my script to read on the first line and upon getting
a 1 go back to the for, get the next line and read the rest from there?
For example, I tried:


	for line in f.readlines():

	    datalist = string.split(line)
          if datalist[0][0] == 1:
             continue
          elif datalist[0][0] == 0:
             break
	    
	    ## Do a bunch of string manipulation here...

As the documentation states, from 4.4 of the tutorial "The continue
statement, also borrowed from C, continues with the next iteration of
the loop. "

Here it doesn't seem to be doing that...its continuing with the current
iteration of for.

Upon reading this first line, I need to go back and get the next line to
go on...

suggestions???

Thanks!
Chris